By Noisy Dove on June 21, 2010
BP chief executive Tony Hayward was spotted Saturday urinating in a public restroom where, after the customary two shakes, he spent the time to shake his penis a full third time – all the while oil continues to poor from the Deepwater Horizon well. Read more... (187 words, 1 image, estimated 45 secs reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged back, bogus, bp, british, claims, deep, gulf, hayward, horizon, life, oil, pay, petroleum, reimburse, spill, time, tony, want, waste |
By Noisy Dove on May 17, 2010
A Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax on the estimated value of products at each stage of production and distribution. And like all taxes on business, it’s passed on to the consumer – making everything more expensive. Read more... (578 words, 2 images, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged added, bad, bill, budget, consumers, democrats, each, economy, entitlement, europe, hidden, historically, hurt, in, monetary, money, obama, on, pass, pay, prices, production, sales, shafted, spending, stage, table, tax, the, value, vat |
By Noisy Dove on March 30, 2010
The poor are already paying that sales tax. It’s just hidden from them right now in the form of all kinds of corporate and income taxes passed on from producers of goods and services. The only difference under the fair tax is that you would KNOW how much you’re paying. And the majority would be less inclined to allow elected officials to make expensive promises and billing a minority. Read more... (377 words, 2 images, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged based, billing, burden, corporate, efforts, elected, equally, expensive, fair, for, hidden, income, line, minority, more, needy, officials, on, out, passed, pay, penalized, poor, poverty, producers, prosperity, rich, services, spread, tax, taxes, truly, vote, wealthy, welfare |
By Noisy Dove on March 29, 2010
This is a good one. Pelosi is trying to sell the health reform bill as something helpful to the economy. lol She’s like that sales person who will swear to the patron dying on the sales floor that this juicer will fix the problem. lol Or the idiot on the radio talking about how calcium supplements will prevent cancer – but you have to take his special coral calcium, you can’t just take Tums. Oh what? You’re not worried about Cancer? Everyone in your family dies of heart disease? Well – it just so happens that my coral calcium will prevent heart disease – yes – it’s a heart-health supplement actually. Read more... (375 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged 10, america, based, bill, billing, budget, burden, cancer, congress, congresswoman, corporate, cost, debt, desease, economic, economy, efforts, elected, employee, entrepreneur, equally, expensive, fair, figure, fix, for, health, hidden, income, increase, jolt, line, mechanics, minority, more, nancy, national, needy, officials, on, out, passed, pay, pelosi, penalized, percent, poor, poverty, prevent, problem, producers, prosperity, radio, reform, rich, senate, services, spread, tax, taxes, truly, vote, wealthy, welfare, workings |
By Dr. Dove on March 10, 2010
Overall I don’t think the specific concern (“if doctors would be required to accept forced-on-us healthcare plans”) would become a huge problem. I know what this argument is getting at though. Medicare doesn’t pay doctors as much as private insurance. If their was a government option, it would pay as much as medicare. Cuts in medicare spending are a constant threat to control costs. “Cuts in medicare spending” translates exactly to paying physicians less for specific services. I’d be a lot more concerned if the government option was still part of the bill. Read more... (261 words, 1 image, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)
Posted in Politics | Tagged bill, care, decrease, doctors, expensive, forced, government, health, increase, insurance, medicaid, medicare, option, pay, penalty, physicians, power, private, public, reform |
By Dr. Dove on February 10, 2010
This is an example of one of the worst conditions ever. Parts of the brain that allow a person to move
are damaged, but parts responsible for sensation and cognition still function to a degree. It can be hard to diagnose, but this fMRI stuff will probably make the diagnosis a lot easier. As far as the ethical stuff is concerned…we’re standing on the doorstep of a catastrophe in the healthcare system, directly related to rising costs. This condition is rare compared to the number of people who truly become vegetables because of less selective brain damage. I cared for armloads of them at St. Elsewhere. It costs ungodly amounts of money to keep someone with either condition “alive.” Costs have to be cut somewhere. Metaphorically speaking, we either cut mammography for 40 year old mothers with early breast cancer, or we stop keeping vegetables “alive,” even if there is the off chance they have a spark of consciousness somewhere. Read more... (307 words, 4 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion | Tagged active, alive, brain, care, coma, comatose, communicate, cost, dead, death, decide, doctors, expensive, fmri, going, hospital, keep, life, MRI, panels, pay, scans, unconscious, useful, useless, vegetable, vegetative |
By Noisy Dove on February 5, 2010
Scott Brown elected Massachusetts State Senator
Do you think a woman who had posed nude could ever achieve national political office?
Disaster in Haiti Read more... (848 words, 8 images, estimated 3:24 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion | Tagged administration, Al Qaeda, alaska, america, american, ask, bill, bomber, brown, care, china, CIA, civilian, concert, congress, conservative, court, debt, deficit, don't, filibuster, funding, government, haiti, health, healthcare, issues, jobs, liberal, Massachusetts, military, national, news, obama, off, office, Palin, party, pay, political, recall, reform, relief, Sarah, scott, single payer, speaking, speech, state, stories, tea, tell, top, toyota, trade, trial, tribunal, underpants, underwear, unemployment, union, wrap-up |
By Noisy Dove on January 12, 2010
Fairness
Let’s start with the semantics – my favorite part of politics [ facetiousness detected ]. We are talking about the FairTax Act. If we judge this Act by the standards held by recent legislation – like the American Clean Energy and Security Act, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – I have to assume that the FairTax Act taxes people unfairly and is not specific to America. Read more... (1680 words, 6 images, estimated 6:43 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged act, bipartisan, congress, democrat, equal, fair, fairness, fairtax, legislation, liberal, likelihood, non-partisan, obama, pay, senate, tax, viability |
By Noisy Dove on January 11, 2010
I’m not a big believer in stimulus. But if you give their economic theory the benefit of the doubt – Keynesian economics – it doesn’t matter. The bills the Dems have passed that they are calling stimulus doesn’t follow the model. Most of the money is used to pay for government – rather than cut the fat like everyone else is doing – and infrastructure projects. Neither do the job Keynes calls for, which is to replace the lost purchasing of the population that’s stowing their cash
. Read more... (516 words, 2 images, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged 5, chapter, democrats, depression, dove, Economics, FDR, fixed, government, great, harry, Keynesian, money, noisy, pay, spending, stimulate, stimulus, theory, WWII |
By Noisy Dove on December 17, 2009
Bank of America is having difficulty finding a CEO who is willing to ruin his/her career being vilified by the Obama Brigade and otherwise not being allowed to compete in the banking industry.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_378115/Bank-of-America-Can%27t-Find-Anyone-Willing-to-Take-CEO-Job?tickers=bac,xlf,^dji,^gspc,dia,spy Read more... (176 words, 1 image, estimated 42 secs reading time)
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged america, bank, ceo, employing, hire, little, no, pay, too, trouble, unacceptable |
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